My first time to vote was in the re-election of the great Ronald Reagan in 84. I then voted for Grampy Bush in 88 only to find him a liar when he said and campaigned so hard on the slogan of "Read My Lips, No New Taxes". It didn't take long for him to fold in what he called a compromise with the same tax happy democrats that Reagan owned for 8 years. Furthermore, Bush gutted the military, tanked the economy and found a way, after forming a great coalition of armed forces to boot Sadam out of Kuwait, to lose the election to a draft dodger. That election found me living in Mobile as a young married father of one with an $8/hr job. It also found me really pissed at GHW Bush and completely intrigued by H Ross Perot.
For the only time in my life, I became a card-carrying member of a "political party". I still have my membership card for United We Stand America and I'm damn proud of it. Because the media and the political parties did everything in their power to block Perot from having a seat at the dance, he had to buy 30 minute blocks of air time on national TV to air his version of a commercial. They were very informative learning opportunities for sure as he would break out pie charts of government expenditures and point out all the pork-barrel wastes. He gained immediate popularity among the common folks and rocketed up in the polls. He was not polished in the debates that were clearly set up by the media in cahoots with the parties but he still gained more ground. Suddenly, he bowed out of the election amid serious, credible threats to his family. I don't recall all of the details but his daughter was targeted. After a couple weeks or so, he rejoined the campaign but according to plan, the media quickly labeled him a "nut" and "whacko".
It was a shame what they did to him but like Trump, he did what he did for his country. Perot and Trump are not the target, we the people are, they are merely in the way of that goal. Sadly, I don't know who exists to take over for Trump when he is done in 5 years. It is certainly not Pence. He is the puppet of the Global Establishment that Trump had to take for the Republicans not to disavow him. Pence is simply GHW Bush, waiting to undo all of the Great that Trump will leave us with.
May God help us now and when Trump leaves. The grip that the Big Club has on everything in our daily lives is far more than our Founders ever thought possible and they were some smart SOBs.
Still sleeping with a Dixie Darling!